Fees focus of 94 special elections
In 1994, students voted
on finance measures in
a spring special election
By David Ryan
Oregon Daily Emerald
Whether students decide to
clean up the elections grievance
process, five years ago students
deliberated in a special election
about something closer to their
hips — their money.
In the spring of 1994, the ASUO
president, Eric Bowen, called a
special election to determine the
fate of the student incidental fees.
He called the special election be
cause of worries about the compe
tency of the ASUO’s Incidental Fi
nance Committee, which oversaw
the funding for all student groups.
As a result of the 1994 special
election, that power is divided be
tween the Programs Finance Com
mittee, the Student Senate and
various senate subcommittees.
"Basically the IFC was incom
petent,” said Bobby Lee, 1993-94
ASUO president. The IFC also was
seen as controversial, doling out
mandatory student fees to organi
zations such as OSPIRG, who
were seen to work for traditionally
liberal causes.
Lee said pressure came from the
State Board of Higher Education and
the University administration to
shape up the IFC or students could
potentially lose control of the fees.
“That was one of the reasons why
I joined the IFC, because the IFC’s
credibility was so low,” he said.
Lee decided to resign from the
ASUO presidency a week before
his term ended to be appointed as
the chair of the IFC. After chang
ing positions, Lee had only seven
days to reconstruct the IFC budget,
and he worked night and day to
make the deadline.
“The perception was that stu
dent fees were out of control at a
time when tuition was skyrocket
ing,” he said. “I basically redid the
whole budget with some of the IFC
members. We didn’t sleep.”
Even after the budget was recon
figured, students still didn’t trust
the committee. ASUO President
Bowen, Lee’s replacement, or
dered a special election to redis
tribute the power of the IFC.
Files detailing the specifics of the
1994 special election disappeared a
month ago from the filing cabinet of
ASUO Executive Coordinator
Cheryl Hunter, who is employed
full time by the ASUO Executive.
“I don’t know why or where [it
was taken],” she said.
From memory, Hunter said in
1994 students voted on eight or 10
measures, all but one related to
breaking up the IFC’s control over
incidental fees. The black sheep
on the ballot was a measure that
would allow the Student Senate to
impeach the ASUO president.
Hunter said the special election
was called so if students voted to
distribute the IFC’s power among
other student government commit
tees, students would be able to elect
officials to new committees created
to share the former IFC's power.
“The key was being able to elect
them in April of that year,” she
said.
All the measures dealing with
incidental fees were passed with a
voter turnout of 3.9 percent in the
special election, compared with a
15 percent voter turnout in the
general elections’ spring elections
of 1997 and 1998. The impeach
ment measure passed in the regu
lar spring elections.
The special election had anoth
er result — increased complexity
of student government.
It spread out the IFC’s power to
the Student Senate, various student
subcommittees, and the Athletic
Department Finance Committee.
“I doubt there is one student on
campus [now] who understands
the way the incidental fee system
works,” Lee said.
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ship between thought and physical
effects, a mind and body connection
while she studied the Bible. For the
next few years, she studied Biblical
healing and learning and named her
discovery Christian Science.
“I think it’s exciting that Christ
ian Science was started by a
woman,” said Autumn Radle, a
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al planning. “[The exhibit] is really
cool. She gave women a voice in
their health care. It’s not just reli
gion; it’s more than that. It’s about a
woman’s personal well-being.”
In 1875, Eddy published “Sci
ence and Health,” later named
“Science and Health with Key to
the Scriptures.” She founded a
teaching college based on her re
search in 1881.
Among her other accomplish
ments, Eddy founded a church in
Boston and served as its pastor in
1879. She also organized a major
publishing society in Boston, pub
lished several books of her own
and launched the Christian Sci
ence Monitor. She was inducted
into the National Women’s Hall of
Fame in 1995.
“In natural law and in religion,
the right of women to fi 11 the high
est measure of enlightened under
standing and the highest places in
government is inalienable.... This
is woman’s hour, with all its sweet
amenities and its moral and reli
gious reforms,” Eddy wrote in
The achievements of Mary Baker Eddy
Mary Baker Eddy will be remembered for her work for women's movement. This is
a timeline of some of her accomplishments and the United States' decisions.
1787
U.S. Constitution, li.S. government de
signed
1846-1865
Search for healing leads to experiments
with alternative treatments (diatetics, hom
eopathy, hydropathy, etc.), later credits her
practice as a homeopathic physician with
teaching her how the mind affects the body
and influences health.
1866
immediate recovery from life-threatening
injuries marks the discovery of a mental
system of heating she later calls ‘Christian
Science.’
1879
Founds a church in Boston and serves as
its pastor.
1881
Establishes a college in Boston to teach
her system of healing to both women and men.
1908 -10
Before her death in 1910 she founds the
daily newspaper. The Christian Science
Monitor.
Total sales o1 Science and Health approach
hall a million copies.
SOURCE: www.marybakereddy.org
1776
Jm Declaration of Independence
1821 -1841
■ Bom and raised on a farm in Bow, N.H,
Self-educated at home because of illness.
1848
I Declaration of Sentiments: First Women’s
Rights Convention Is held on July 19 and
20, One hundred women and men debate,
vote on and sign a Declaration of Senti
ments and Resolutions based on the Declar
ation of Independence.
1875
Publishes Science and Health, a textbook
about her system of healing, later renamed
Science and Health with Key to the Scrip
tures.
Gives her first pubte lecture on her discovery.
1898
■ Organizes a major publishing society In
Boston and adds a new weekly magazine to
her ongoing publications.
19th Amendment: a woman's right to vote.
1995
■ Mary Baker Eddy is inducted into the Na
tional Women's Hall of Fame.
Katie Nesse/Emerald
“Christian Science: No and Yes,”
published in 1887.
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